[PRL] AI Koans

Paul Steckler steck at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Apr 30 11:54:51 EDT 2003


> A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning 
> the power off and on.  Knight, seeing what the student was 
> doing spoke sternly: "You can not fix a machine by just 
> power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going 
> wrong."  Knight turned the machine off and on.  The machine worked.

Do not try this at home, er, at work.  The Sun boxes should 
not be power-cycled!

However, if you can still find a Symbolics machine around CCIS,
feel free to power-cycle it.

-- Paul



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